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"Power is the great aphrodisiac."
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"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
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"It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!"
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."
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"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."
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"Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible."
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"It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power."
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"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
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"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
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"So they finally gave you the license to kill, about time."
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"Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances."
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"Even a paranoid can have enemies."
Enemy
"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."
Society
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
Crisis
"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."
Experience
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
Leadership
"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
Success
"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."
Friendship
"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."
Mistake
"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."
Experience
"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets."
Acceptance
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